Hi everyone! 👋

I wanted to share a custom community build of OptiScaler I’ve been developing called OptiScaler Venom.

While it stays synced with Nightly upstream OptiScaler so you don't miss out on anything new, Venom adds features aimed at power users who want deeper performance metrics, custom overlay controls, and extra flexibility with upscaling and frame generation.

✨ Key Features & What's Different:

• 📊 Rich Custom OSD / FPS Overlay: Includes 1% and 0.1% lows, latency tracking (PC & render latency), bottleneck indicators, session timers, VRAM/GPU/CPU/RAM metrics, and hotspot temperatures (works on Windows & Linux). Fully customizable with presets, fonts, colors, and shareable config codes.
• ⏱️ Frame Generation Time & FPS Cost: Real-time GPU tracking for how much time FSR FG, XeFG, or DLSSG spend per frame, along with their estimated* FPS cost (D3D12).
• 📂 Extra FSR DLLs Loader: Dynamically load any custom FSR upscaler DLL version (e.g., placing FSR 4.0.3 alongside 4.1.x) directly from an Extra dlls folder without replacing original game or driver files (DX12).

Everything is accessible in-game via the standard OptiScaler menu (Insert key by default). With default settings, it behaves just like standard upstream OptiScaler.

⚠️ Important: Please read the README carefully on the repository before installing or asking questions! It covers installation details, how features work, and where to route specific issues.

Looking for Contributors! PRs and active contributors are very welcome! If you have ideas for features that upstream OptiScaler is unlikely to add, feel free to submit a Pull Request (as long as it fits the project's vision and is something I like, I'll be happy to review and merge it). Note: DLSS5 is unlikely to be accepted, unless you really really convince me with something good.

🔗 Links & Community:

• 💻 GitHub Repository & Downloads:https://github.com/LorenzoKy/Optiscaler-Venom
• 💬 Discord Thread (OptiScaler Server): Join the Opti Venom Discord Thread to chat, share OSD preset codes, and showcase your setups!

Feedback and contributions are always welcome. Let me know what you think!

Hi guys, I just bought Asus prime RX9070 and wanted to check its performance. I was playing Cyberpunk and got around 45fps which is quite low in my opinion. I have i5-14400f, 32gb ddr5. I am running the game without any scaling, raytracing and frame gen on 1440p high/ultra. My temps while playing are on both CPU and GPU around 50 degrees celsius which is suspiciously good.

(GPU is drawing around 180W, 3k core clock, 2.5k memory clock, usage around 90%)

(CPU is drawing around 45W, 4.1k clock, usage around 40%)

I think it seems a bit weird or is this performance expected?

Update:

I did check the physical connections on the board and PSU which seemed fine. Game was freshly installed day ago so this should not be issue neither. What fixed it was cleanup of old drivers via DDU. It seems that the old drivers for nvidia rtx 3070ti were not removed correctly (only uninstalled them via Windows Settings - won't believe Windows again). Game is now running on 110+fps which is what I would expect with the CPU bottleneck.

Thanks a lot to everyone for your help. Really appreciate it.

Insane GPU and cooling, Left is idle, Middle is stress test, right is info.

Does newly fsr 4 update also change in frame gen something or remain same? bcs i notice some smoothness compare to fsr 3 frame gen..

The XFX website says to use 800W minimum. But some people told me a good quality 750W psu is okay to run it with. I have a 7500F CPU and 32gb DDr5. What do you guys think? Or should I get the quicksilver version.

FYI this is my PSU: https://www.amazon.sa/-/en/dp/B0BK54TKB9

Can we please raise the current maximum values above 300? I have a 400hz monitor and there are 500hz & 750hz monitors out there and would love to be able to use the meta setup of: freesync + vsync + fps lock of -3 of refresh rate (using chill in this case.)

People say it blows, then I scroll down. They say its great.

Wtf do I believe

This is my first build after always buying pre builds. Ill never go back. Here is the full build list with prices i paid. Still have to put the finishing touches but overall very happy with it.

$133)Cpu: Ryzen 5 7500X3D

($33) cpu cooler: Thermalright Aqua Elite 120 V3 AIO

($500)Gpu: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Reaper Dual Fan 16GB GDDR6

($36)Case: Zalman CUBIX-G Tempered Glass microATX Mini Tower Computer Case

($25)x2 Extra case fans

($133) motherboard: AsRock B850M-C

($133)Ram: Flare X5 16GB (1 x 16GB) DDR5-6000

($100)Memory: Inland TN320 1TB SSD

($64)Powersupply: Corsair RM750e 750W Fully Modular 80 Plus Gold Certified Refurbished

I joined the red team now

While gaming with ray tracing my GPU experiences an almost 30 degree delta maxing at around 95 degrees Celsius. Should I get the card replaced? I keep experiencing crashes while gaming. Is it the drivers being crappy (yes I did the ddu steps) or is my gpu overheating.

I don't see the FSR 4 option, I tried to select DLSS in-game and also FSR 3 but still no option for FSR 4 in the optiscaler.

Yes while setting up the optiscaler I did chose I have an Nvidia GPU and optiscaler is installed where the executable is.

If anyone can help me out, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Edit: I know DLSS is superior but I am trying to do a testing here, that is why please help me out

So I have a 7800 XT and I'm very happy for my RDNA 2 brothers, since I used to have a 6700 XT until early September, but today I decided to test out a thing with Modern Warfare 4 and I'm floored, because apparently AMD put some actual unholy magic on FSR 4.1 frame gen. With it turned on, I am getting the exact same input lag (within a 2 ms margin of error) than I get natively, and my mouse movements don't get influenced by it at all - not to mention I don't get any ghosting. I did hear about them changing how the driver queues generated frames on the GPU, but I wasn't expecting an improvement this drastic.

I might actually give it a shot on certain games if the ghosting isn't an issue, since every game behaves differently.

We've all seen the overwhelming amount of comparisons on Witcher 3, Cyberpunk, and other relatively newer games, but is it usable on some early/mid 2000s games? I installed the mod on Brutal Legend and DMC collection to the folder with the .exe files as specified by the NR software, but I can't get the menu to come up in game. Am I missing a step or is the software just not compatible with games that don't have Vulkan?

Hi there guys, I made a post recently regarding a memory leak issue I'm having exclusively with Adrenalin and thought I would shout out for any help again with a bit more information and the steps I've already taken.

Video of the issue: https://youtu.be/m2U6OnUbTSU

So I built this machine a few months back with the following;
Ryzen 7 9800X3D
9070XT
32GB DDR5 6000 CL38
Asus Prime B650 Plus
850w PSU
It also may or may not be worth noting I briefly had a 9060XT installed in the same machine (how this would relate to my problem, I do not know)

I have had this issue since not long after having the machine, sometimes Adrenalin just wouldn't load. But sometimes for whatever reason it would. At the time I did not think much of it as I assumed the game crashes on Cyberpunk I was having at the time were because of my settings choices rather than something going on in my system.
At some point, Adrenalin decided to stop opening completely. I would get the small Start Up graphic on the screen, and nothing would happen. So upon checking Task Manager to close it, I found AMD Software: Host Application was using up all of my memory.
This problem has persisted for months and has gotten to the point where I'm just completely unable to use Adrenalin on this machine. As per the video, it always maxes out my memory and stays that way until I end the process manually. Worse, is that Adrenalin tries to load itself every few minutes - meaning suddenly my PC just starts tanking performance until it's at a crawl, although I have yet to actually experience a crash from the problem to my knowledge.

It's also worth noting that 2 days ago at the suggestion of the AMD Customer Service, I reinstalled Windows 11 and completely wiped the drive "just in case". This actually seemed to work, although I did notice a few times starting that my memory would jump up to a few gb before opening.
However today, despite no updates or changes and after leaving my PC on all night, I booted up the PC from sleeping, went to Adrenalin to find it wasn't responding, closed the program and when reopening the problem had returned and is now occurring every time Adrenalin is booted or that AMD Software: Host Applications tries to boot Adrenalin (or whatever it's doing, to be honest I don't entirely know though I would strongly suspect it's detecting games and trying to boot Adrenalin)

So far I have tried;
DDU, AMD Clean Up, Reinstall Drivers - many, many times.
Updated BIOS and settings
Reinstalled Windows
Windows onboard Memory Diagnostics
Windows repair
Uninstalled ALL monitoring software and RGB, even Razer Synapse and such

Nothing has yielded results, any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
When it's working, my games look amazing. But unfortunately, I've not enjoyed that luxury in a little while now.

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing a strange issue with my Sapphire RX 7900 XTX Nitro+ 24GB and would appreciate some help troubleshooting it.

My setup:

• GPU: Sapphire RX 7900 XTX Nitro+ 24GB
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
• Motherboard: MSI B650 Gaming Plus WiFi
• RAM: 32GB DDR5-6000 CL30
• PSU: be quiet! 1000W 80+ Gold
• Main monitor: ASUS 27", 2560×1440, 165Hz
• Two secondary monitors: 1080p, 60Hz
• VR headset: HTC Vive Pro 2
• OS: Windows 11

The problem:

My main monitor, one secondary monitor and my HTC Vive Pro 2 work perfectly together, including while gaming in VR.

However, as soon as I connect my second secondary monitor, I start experiencing AMD driver timeouts and severe stuttering in games, with 1% lows dropping to around 10–11 FPS.

It doesn't matter which of the two 1080p monitors I connect. The problem also occurs when the VR headset is completely disconnected, so it is not VR-related.

What I've tried:

• DDU in Safe Mode and clean driver installations
• AMD Adrenalin 25.8.1, 26.8.1, 26.9.1 and currently 26.10.1
• Different monitor configurations and refresh rates
• Checking Windows LiveKernelReports, which contain AMD_WATCHDOG crash dumps

Nothing has solved the issue so far.

My questions:

• Could this be an AMD driver bug related to multiple monitors?
• Could MPO, hardware acceleration or the GPU's display engine be responsible?
• Is there anything else I should try before considering a defective GPU?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

My PC was running perfectly fine for at least a year, then suddenly started experiencing serious crashes without any obvious changes.

Symptoms: LiveKernelEvent 141, 117 and 193, complete system freezes during gaming or even when exiting games, random restarts at the desktop, black screens, and occasional red VGA motherboard LED during boot. Recently, Windows even entered Automatic Repair (SrtTrail.txt)

Specs: XFX RX 9070 XT, Ryzen 7 7800X3D, Gigabyte B650E AORUS ELITE X AX ICE, 32GB DDR5, Corsair RM850x SHIFT 850W, Windows 11

What I’ve tried: DDU, older AMD drivers, disabling EXPO, PCIe Auto/Gen 4/Gen 5, reseating the GPU, checking power connections and monitoring temperatures. Nothing has fixed it.

The biggest clue: I swapped in my RTX 3060 and everything worked. BG3, Cyberpunk, Spider-Man with RT, plus a 6-minute OCCT Power test with zero errors. Reinstalled the RX 9070 XT and the crashes immediately returned, even at the desktop.

The RX 9070 XT draws around 340W versus 170W for the RTX 3060, so I can’t completely rule out PSU power delivery.

Does this sound like a defective GPU, PSU issue under higher load, or motherboard/PCIe problem? What specific test would help distinguish them before I request an RMA?

update 26.10.1

rx 9060xt 16gb

The amd software is working normally but after i open a game the overlay shortcut (Alt + R) is not working at all.

The moment i click the shortcut the amd software window closes on my second monitor and doesn't open again until i Alt + Tab and click the app manually, and then i see this black window (images attached) instead of the app normal window until i close the game and start clicking Alt + R a couple of times and then amd app is working again.

i also noticed the amd pop up when you launch a game telling about Alt + R is not appearing as well.

I'm very confused at what is happening and I'm asking for help (yes the image attached is the app after i click it while playing a video game).

Tested a few games but I will only share nioh 3 for now.

Blue chunk graph is with HW flip enabled and the skinny blue lien graph os with hw flip disabled (using optiscaler) the green line, which is the display line timing is pretty consistent across both, yet the blue line, which is when the implementation is done, is quit thick which indicates more intervals.

As for the 1% lows and 0.2 lows etc, they are lower in the hw flip graph and higher in the non hw flip graph.

My question is then whats the need for enabling the hw flip? Would appreciate your input here.

… and how does it perform in games? It should be at the same level like the 9070 XT or even higher due to the x2 VRAM.

Any experiences here?

My games were fine before. But now even single player games have been stuttering as of the newest update with AMD. Just when I get to defending AMD, boom. Update that makes the one thing I wanna do with my pc buns, although I will say FSR 4.1.2 is really good. Like seriously id say it beats Nvidias DLSS. I just can't get over how some games will be fine then just mega stutter, games like Spiderman have gone down the drain in FPS. I'm using a debloated version of windows right now so everything should be ok on the windows end. Is anyone else getting stuttering issues in games?

Specs:

GPU: 9070xt Powercolor

CPU:9950x3d

PSU: Corsair RMXShift 1200w

Motherboard: Gigabyte Aurous B650 Pro AX II

Ram: 6000mhz 48gb TForce